Re: permanent XFS volume corruption

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On 5/16/17 5:06 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> I'm not sure we've made much progress on the root cause of whatever set
>> those extra flags*,

> Indeed, and that's the primary aspect that worries me, since with
> working on the hypervisor or kernel it is going to be unavoidable for
> a crash to happen now and then. While I realize chances are low to
> find out any useful information for the two past cases of corruption,
> do you have any advice on how to collect / preserve necessary
> information on a sooner or later to be expected next instance? Isn't
> the most likely explanation that the log replay upon next mount has
> gone wrong (or the data in the log itself was bogus)?

About all I can suggest is to get an xfs_metadump as soon as any new
problem shows up, if it does.


Your first report seems to indicate that a 4.11 kernel crashed, and the
resulting dirty log was replayed by a 3.12-era distro kernel.  Is that
the correct sequence of events?

-Eric
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